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Africa's next 'industrial decade'The United Nations has declared 2016-2025 as the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa. What this means for the continent is renewed focus and support for inclusive and sustainable industrial development to further economic diversification and job creation to reduce poverty; and contribute to the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the continent, which all African Union states are party to. Despite the global economic slowdown and worst drought in 35 years, Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in the world, according to EY '2016 Africa attractiveness program, Staying the course'. This is due to investment into new and existing projects, as well as new investors. There's a strong focus this past week in Africa on digital transformation and the explosion in the smartphone market which is leading to a revolution in the app service culture in Africa as well as video. Top mobile brands have also come together to reduce the mobile gender gap by 2020 and connect women to the mobile internet and mobile money. It's a short week for us in South Africa as we vote in our local government elections on Wednesday, which has been declared a public holiday. Have a great week! Louise Marsland
Africa Editor: Bizcommunity.comComment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Weekly top stories |
|  | The UN General Assembly has encouraged the mobilisation of adequate resources for the implementation of the Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa 2016-2025... read
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| | ![[Biz Takeouts Podcast] 183: Evolution of CEM and the CEM Africa Summit](https://biz-file.com/c/1607/353809-120x120.jpg?2) | On the latest episode of Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show host Warren Harding spoke to Simon Cranswick and Mike Jones... read | |  | Bandile Ndzishe Marketing directors and chief marketing officers are relentlessly building a complex web of marketing, communication, sales and promotions to put them in a position to sell more products and services than rivals in the fiercely competitive marketplace... read | |
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 | USAID and Ghana Health Service launch refreshed 'Good Life, Live It Well' campaign... read | |  | African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) appoints first Secretary General, Professor Ernest Aryeetey... read | |
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 | MTN Nigeria is proceeding with its intention to list on the Nigerian stock exchange... read | |  | Johan Haupt Johan Haupt of Primedia's Out of Home Africa division, sets out to answer the perennial question: "How many billboards do I need?"... read | |
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 | Abey Tau The roll-out of Africa's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to end poverty and put sustainability and growth at its core, says Abey Tau, of Samsung... read | |  | Lauren Hartzenberg When Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012, it was only two-years old and comprised 13 people. The startup used their digital smarts to change the concept... read | |
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 | The traditional telephone took 70 years to reach 50% penetration within households, while the internet took approximately ten years to reach satisfactory levels... read | |  | Thabiso Moloi The debate of whether or not social influencers should get paid for the work they produce on behalf of brands seems to be a never ending one... read | |  | Race against time in drought-ravaged Southern Africa to ensure 23 million people receive farming support in the worst drought in 35 years... read | |  | Innovation and aggressive broadband expansion is leading digital transformation in East Africa... read | |  | Additional humanitarian funding from USAID will be provided through UN and NGO partners to help address the needs of those affected by the drought... read | |  | The International News Media Association (INMA) yesterday unveiled plans for a Global Media Summit 14 - 15 November 2016, in Cape Town, South Africa... read | |  | Dharmesh Nagar Faced with smuggling claims around a client brand, Dharmesh Nagar and his Media Revolution team had to act to protect their client's brand... read | |  | The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) begins unprecedented emergency food relief operation in drought-hit Malawi... read | |  | Savanna Tobacco has gone shopping and purchased Remington Gold to add to its brand portfolio... read | |  | Orange Mali, Smart Burundi, Smart Tanzania, Smart Uganda, Tigo Chad, Tigo Ghana, Tigo Senegal, Tigo Tanzania and Zantel, have all signed up to the Connected Women Commitment Initiative... read | |  | Tuluntulu says watching video on smartphones in Africa is becoming more affordable and African video content is set to increase... read | |  | Winners of the HE Ameenah Gurib-Fakim PhD Scholarship Programme announced... read | |  | Thabiso Mochiko The rapid uptake of digital services across the continent requires that the region's governments urgently release more spectrum for mobile broadband services. read | |  | A new report from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, Building Brands That Attract and Engage Fans, taps into expert opinion from PepsiCo, Visa, J&J, PetSmart, Cox Communications, Opus Bank... read | |  | Michelle Jones One of the biggest myths in digital marketing today is the belief that you can purposefully create content with the intention of it going viral. The truth is there is no method, formula or recipe to create viral content... read | |
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 | Paula Raubenheimer The current online advertising environment can be confusing and seemingly fragmented with native advertising, premium display advertising and now programmatic advertising being thrown in the mix... read | |  | Cartoon Network has announced the winners of its first Cartoon Network Imagination Studios competition, which had three categories - drawings, stories and films... read | |  | Issued by Maxim Festival Pepe Marais, founding partner and Chief Creative Officer of Joe Public, will talk about Brand Purpose: Why do I exist? at the Maxim Festival Summit Day on 25 November... read | | | Promoted content |  | Issued by GLOBAL DATA INTELLIGENCE LIMITED The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 may be well behind us, but many of the world's economies continue to struggle. Here in South Africa recovery was rapid, peaking in 2010... read |
| |  | Kelly McGillivray TheSQUAD recently had the opportunity to pitch on doing an event in Abuja, Nigeria, and Kelly McGillivray talks about her key learnings... read | |  | Standard Bank is on a committed journey of rapid digitisation across the continent... read | |  | Econet Media signs up the NFL in an extensive agreement for Sub-Saharan Africa... read | |  | Mobile ecosystem adds more than $150 billion in economic value to African economy... read | |  | Stephan Botha, Issued by Provantage Media Group Stephan Botha of ProActive outlines the reasons why FMCG brands wanting to expand business in Africa can benefit hugely from activations... read | |  | Tom Jackson Investments in African tech startups are on the rise, especially from overseas firms and individuals... read | |  | Anne Dolinschek Brands in South Africa are slowly but surely starting to understand the influencer landscape. They are largely dependent on their public relations teams to educate them on this matter... read | |  | The Midas Awards polled its international network of agency and industry creatives, inviting them to a global roundtable on how Britain's exit from the EU will affect the ad world... read | |
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 | Andre Fourie Leaders have rarely had a more challenging time. Rapid technological disruption, a rebalance of world power, continuing economic uncertainty following the 2008 financial crisis... read | |  | Chris Brewer It still amazes me that so many TV (and radio) commercials are 30 seconds long... read | |
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